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CONTENTS

2 BRIEF/GROUND3 CONTEXT > SITE/OWNERSHIP4 OWNERSHIP > MASTERPLAN5 > RESIDUAL SPACE6 SITE BOUNDARY > MASTERPLAN PHASING10 THE SITE > PHASING12 > PUBLIC INTERVENTION18 BRIDGE YARD > FUTURE PROVISION19 > UK CONTEXT21 > LOCAL POSITIONING22 RUSKIN SQUARE > PHASING POTENTIAL24 > SCENARIO A1/A226 > ANALYSIS A1/A228 > SCENARIO B1/B230 > ANALYSIS B1/B2 32 > SCENARIO C1/C234 > ANALYSIS C1/C2

SAMUEL HIGGINS [ R E _ M A P ] 2012

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Croydon East StationSiteBrief

PART A:INFRASTRUCTURE > INTERSTICE

Infrastructural imposition has created fissures in the urban fabric and displaced spaces and events.Investigate the NICHE/INTERSTITIAL/RESIDUAL space associated with a mainline railway (and its station), and created by a complex phased development.

Focus on... (Temporality / Permanance) (Adaptability / Mutability) (Materiality / in relation to the Global Polis)Design something that will occupy the space.

GROUNDInvestigation of the site in a group of three with Ground (topography/ownership/planning juristictions/rivers/sewage/drainage) as the primary concern.

CONTEXT

OWNERSHIP

Using the East Croydon Masterplan 2011 (Hawkins/Brown) the site is broken down into the constituent actors and their ownership ratios.This taxonomy system of ownership proportions identifies the influence of parties, calculates residual space amounts and gauges the efficiencies and implications of any intervention into the masterplan site.


OWNERSHIP > MASTERPLAN OWNERSHIP > RESIDUAL SPACE

Proposed Developed Area(Shown in Masterplan)

Percentage of Total OwnershipTotal Masterplan Area Residual Space _ Existing Residual Space _ Proposed in Masterplan

Council

Stanhope & Schroder

Network Rail

Menta

Royal Mail


Enabling Works

The main commercial developer relinquishes 27.6% of site ownership area to enable the “catalyst” bridge site to come into existence.

Existing Condition

Over time, to allow the phased development of such a large site, ownership is temporarily re-assigned. The latent nature of ownership on the site is in flux - invisible - yet determining the extents and timings of future developments.

SITE BOUNDARY > MASTERPLAN PHASING

1. Existing Site 3. Co-operation For Bridge Construction2. Boundaries Clearly De-Marked 4. Temporary Increase In Network Rail Site


Re-activating the infrastructure

Utilising the defunct infrastructure and residual space by re-installing the previous siding into the site, the proposed bridge development can be efficiently supplied by a nationwide network of goods, skills and services.

Installation

The Bridge Yard creates the new bridge infrastructure. It is installed on site on schedule and budget.

SITE BOUNDARY > MASTERPLAN PHASING

5. Intervention > Infrastructure - Re-install disused track to provide a siding to the temporary site.

7. Installation of the completed bridge.6. Infrastucture > Intervention - Pre-emptive public space enabled whilst Bridge Yard creates new infrastructure.

Infrastructure and Public Space Installation

The proposed [Re_Map] interventions operate at two scales.

- The infrastructural intervention sees the re-activation of an ancillary railway zone so that a piece of railway infrastructure can be created more efficiently. This is a minimal interjection for a very large impact towards the initial masterplan phasing. The bridge construction will not rely on a conjested, expensive and third party road infrastructure. It will be self-reliant and therefore easier to deliver to a strict schedule and budget.

- The pre-emptive activation of a future public space and the intervention of a seating/viewing structure occupy the microurban/temporal niches of the masterplan. A live performative part of Croydon is activated when the intervention structure encourages people to interact with the ongoing construction of the bridge. The main arterial route of the masterplan is also activated by the intervention.

The design and appropriation of both interventions will be considered in both a temporal and permanent sense with regard to the development of Croydon and the future (or lack of) for the masterplan.

2000-2012

[Re_Map] Intervention + Hawkins/Brown 2011 Masterplan.

THE SITE > PHASING



Residual Space

The Hawkins/Brown 2011 Masterplan was analysed using SpaceSyntax to process the movement of people across the newly enabled bridge site. This identified appropriate residual space that could be used as the site for integrated public domain.

Residual Space / Intervention

The best-fit residual space is defined and rationalised to generate a suitable form for the public domain intervention.

Prescribed Routes

The masterplan is overdrawn with a set of assumed direct travel lines which negotiate the centre of the site and link up to the bridge.

Scale

Each of the routes is scaled to best represent its importance in the system. The thicker the line, the more connections it has with other routes.

THE SITE > PUBLIC SPACE INTERVENTION

Bridge Interaction

The bridge is highlighted as the focal route. Its primary connections to other routes are in yellow, its secondary connections are shown in green.

Total Interaction

All of the routes have all of their connections expressed. The heirachy is: red, orange, green, blue - in order of proximity, with red being the strongest, closest links in any given route.

Combined

All of the SpaceSyntax data is overlaid to analyse the latent movement patterns through the site.


Design

In order to produce a contextually appropriate form, the following steps were taken as drivers for the intervention’s design...

3D Space Planning

In order to provide interaction with the Bridge Yard site during the construction phases, the intervention has been articulated onto set height levels. This provides varying levels of visual access to the Bridge Yard, with the highest planes revealing greater extents of the works, encouraging users to progress further up the intervention.

The sides of the intervention are pulled in on ascending vertical planes to create a plateaued sculptural form.

Breakdown

The intervention’s vertical extrusions are further divided using the underlying grid data from the SpaceSyntax study to give a landscaped form which maximises occupiable public space. The design maximises variety and division of the surface to create as many unique micro-spaces as possible, which can be occupied by users in myriad, un-regulated ways.

THE SITE > PUBLIC SPACE INTERVENTION THE SITE > PUBLIC SPACE INTERVENTION

Grid

The intersections of the underlying SpaceSyntax analysis were used to generate a grid system across the residual site.

Fillet Chamfer

To allow the smooth flow of pedestrians around the site, sharp edges are filleted and the grid constrained to these proportions.

Stagger

Within the constraints of the site, the edges of the form are rationalised to create parallel and perpendicular sides.

Massing

The 2D grid form is extruded to give rectilinear 3D geometry.


Drawings

Precedent

Freeway Park, Seattle. 1976 Lawrence Halprin

Materiality

Insitu cast concrete. This is contextually appropriate for all possible uses of the site. It can represent both the functional, industrial use of the site and the clean, sculptural requirements of the fully developed masterplan.

Plan

South Elevation

West Elevation

THE SITE > PUBLIC SPACE INTERVENTION

FULL DEVELOPMENT INTEGRATIONSeating appropriated by workers/residents of the development.

PARTIAL DEVELOPMENT & INDUSTRIAL HUB INTEGRATIONViews articulated to all nodes of industrial interest on half of the site.

NO DEVELOPMENT - INDUSTRIAL HUB INTEGRATIONViews articulated to all nodes of industrial interest across the whole masterplanned site. (See further for site potential flow diagrams)

Digital 3D View Digital Prototype Model Section

Prototyping

1:20 Stone Plaster models where cast to analyse the formal qualities, proportions and indicative material properties of the intervention.


Bridge Yard Relevance

In the future the Bridge Yard could function as an integral node in the rail infrastructure of the UK. To understand how it could provide location based maintenance / support / manufacture throughout the network data was collected and analysed.

European scale [THAMESLINK REDEVELOPMENT]

“The Transport select committee’s 2011 decision to award manufacturing contract to Berlin based Siemens may result in 1,400 job losses at the largest UK rolling stock manufacturer - Bombadier’s Derby plant.Of the 1,100 suppliers of goods or services to Bombadier, 900 are UK based.”publications.parliament.uk110909

In an uncertain Europe, the UK must become more insular with its infrastructure procurement methods - enabling self-reliance. Ruskin Square, Croydon is ideally situated to contribute to this necessary infrastructure.

BRIDGE YARD > FUTURE PROVISION

Site Location

BRIDGE YARD > UK CONTEXT


UK Network

The rail stock infrastructure in the UK consists of 4,000 vehicles, 2,516 stations and 21,000 miles of track (Railway Industry Association). The distributed network of UK rail infrastructure procurement and maintenance seems extremely small when compared to the scale of the whole rail network.

BRIDGE YARD > UK CONTEXT

Local networks

The site is placed within direct connection of 58 Thameslink stations and 36 Crossrail stations. With the planned and ongoing developments at these sites, the Ruskin Square site is ideally positioned to provide infrastructural support across the whole of both networks.

The site is indirectly linked with the rest of the UK mainline railway track networks. As a hub to distribute (or even manufacture), Ruskin Square is well situated.

BRIDGE YARD > LOCAL POSITIONING


Possible Scenarios

The future of Ruskin Square could turn out many different ways. A timeline and series of potential future scenarios have been assessed to understand the potential realities of the Hawkins / Brown masterplan proposals.

Each scenario is used to document the land use efficiency (and residual land creation) of any future function of the site. It also functions as a tool to contextually explore the way in which the public domain intervention and the Bridge Yard could be appropriately situated for the site’s future use(s).

RUSKIN SQUARE > PHASING POTENTIAL


RUSKIN SQUARE > SCENARIO A1/A2



A1 Full Development

Designated views were analysed to allow user integration with the completed scheme, selected areas of the rail infrastructure and the bridge.

The primary users are the workers of the Masterplan scheme on their lunches and the scheme’s residents on the weekends.

ANALYSIS > A1/A2

Intervention Analysis

ANALYSIS > A1/A2



RUSKIN SQUARE > SCENARIO B1/B2

Re-massing the site

The Masterplan proposed scheme has been condensed to enable Scenarios B1/B2.

41,000m2 from the rear of the site is redistributed into 5 additional stories of residential accommodation on 4 blocks to clear the North of the site.



B2 Developed/Post-industrial

The North of the site is an integral maintenance/manufacturing hub for its usable life. Thereafter its infrastructure is given over as additional public domain to Croydon residents/visitors. This is treated as a post-industrial park, celebrating Croydon’s rail infrastructure involvement and providing much needed amenities for the area.

B1 Developed/Industrial

Designated views were analysed to allow user integration with the part completed scheme, selected areas of the rail infrastructure and the key visual nodes of the Bridge Yard.

ANALYSIS > B1/B2


ANALYSIS > B1/B2



RUSKIN SQUARE > SCENARIO C1/C2



ANALYSIS > C1/C2


ANALYSIS > C1/C2

C1 Full Industrial

Designated views were analysed to allow user integration with the rail infrastructure and the key visual nodes of the whole Bridge Yard.

C2 Post-industrial

Once at the end of its industrial life, the whole site becomes a post-industrial park - of a scale which is appropriate for a met-ropolitan centre the size of Croydon.


ANALYSIS > C1/C2

C2 Post-industrial

Precedent

IBA EmscherInternational Building Exhibition - Ruhr District, Germany300sq.km1989-2014

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Documents

existing residual space

residual space amounts

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masterplan site

existing site

temporary site

site ownership area

catalyst bridge site